I got a weird problem with my git repository. It suddently "stopped" working with tags. I can create tags, i can list tags. I can even use git checkout $tag or git logs $tag. But when using git describe --exact-match the tag is not detected anymore? This currently breaks my pipeline, since the tagged commit on master seems to be not tagged to git itself? One week ago it was working flawlessly.
$ git checkout master
$ git tag my-test-tag
$ git describe --exact-match
fatal: no tag exactly matches '4b2aa1dcf70eaf61640e6a983df82e1ffe3a5812'
I already tried running git fsck --full which only fixed some dangling commits, which looked fine for me (since i'm rebasing quite a lot).
Another funny thing: The tool gitg is not showing any history for these "new" commits. While for "old" commits everything works as expected.
Anybody got a clue what is going on here?
Tested on 3 machines, all running git version 2.17.1.
git tag creates a non-annotated tag by default;
use -a to change this.
git describe refers only to annotated tags by default;
use --all or --tags to change this.